Coffee Break with Game-Changers, presented by SAP

Wednesday at 8 AM Pacific/11 AM Eastern

The Buzz: “Tax complexity itself is a kind of tax” (Max Baucus). The confluence of global trade, new technologies and governments' increasing need for tax revenue is impacting the global commerce landscape, challenging you and your competitors. To stay afloat, you need to understand, prepare for and stay on top of changing tax and regulatory compliance rules, as well as new technologies and platforms – including blockchain, machine learning, and big data. Got your lifejacket ready? The experts speak. John Viglione, Vertex: Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they

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Featured Guests

John Viglione

As Executive Vice President, John Viglione sponsors the efforts of Vertex’s most current commercial venture, known as Vertex Enterprise, a global data management platform - enabling multi-national corporations to manage the complex financial planning and compliance associated with global tax management. John initially joined Vertex as Chief Technology Officer to complete the introduction of its then early market client/server offerings, while leading the efforts to architect its next generation global transactional system, known today as Vertex Indirect Tax O Series, an on-premise and cloud platform. John is active in the technology and industry analyst community associated with the global

Robert Kugel

Rob Kugel heads up the CFO and business research at Ventana Research focusing on the intersection of information technology with the finance organization and business. His research agenda includes the application of IT to finance and business process optimization – particularly continuous accounting and continuous planning; control systems and analytics; and price and revenue optimization. Prior to joining Ventana Research he was an equity research analyst at several firms including First Albany Corporation, Morgan Stanley, and Drexel Burnham, and a consultant with McKinsey and Company. Rob was an Institutional Investor All-American Team member and on the Wall Street Journal All-Star list.

Camilla Dahlen

Camilla Dahlen is head of ISV, Cloud and Platform Partnerships for North America at SAP. She believes in the intersection of technology, customer success and high performance teams. Camilla is an accomplished senior executive sales and general management leader and has been consistent throughout her career building, developing and growing high performance teams that deliver profitable revenue growth across a wide range of technology solutions and routes to market. Diversity is an extremely important topic to Camilla and that means incorporating a myriad of viewpoints, backgrounds, skills and life experiences across the teams she manages and interacts with. She strongly believes that oppor